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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Quote by Lord Acton about money, artists, things

Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting...

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about economy, society

The kids get everything-the flashing lights and the pyrotechnics and the smoke. We're an effects-driven society. But we're also giving them Scripture.

Quote by Willie Aames about poetry, smoke, society

Since then, there has been a vicious campaign of vilification against republicans, driven in the main by the Irish government.

Quote by Gerry Adams

Nonetheless, it is still popular to assert that all female criminals are driven by male threat or patriarchal pressure.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about criminals

Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.

Quote by Glenn Close about genius, man

Clay birds launched from a taut spring are going about 60MPH. A driven golf ball travels about 250MPH. Don’t ever bet that you can hit a golf ball with a shot gun before dark unless you really don’t need that shoulder any more.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cowboys, spring, dark, need

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement, and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be...

Quote by Margaret Oliphant about thinking, nothing, things, world, life

If you let yourself be driven crazy by scrutiny and the things people say, you could develop insecurities about anything.

Quote by Gwyneth Paltrow about human imperfections, things, people

We were in all four men with eight animals, for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an additional mule was driven along with us as a reserve in case of accident.

Quote by Francis Parkman about opinion, animals, man

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about end

Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it...

Quote by James Payn about chance, literature

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Quote by William Faulkner about art, miracle, artists

Man is a creature of a willful head, and hardly driven is, but easily led.

Quote by Samuel Daniel about people, heads, man

The human soul is not a rock, clenched forever in aforce. It is complex and changeable. The feelings are coming, are driven away and they are returning again. Works, III RightWords Translation

Quote by Eugen Lovinescu about soul, feelings, rocks, human imperfections